BP Blowout: Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster

By: Jacobs, Daniel

"BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil discharge- the largest ever in U.S. waters-polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants and the environment. Daniel Jacobs tells the story that neither BP nor the federal government wants heard: how the company and the government fell short, both in terms of preventing and responding to the disaster."--book flap

• Format: Electronics
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081572909X
• ISBN13: 9780815729099
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 210 Pages